I’m joining OpenAI • Hacker News Board

Re: I’m joining OpenAI

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Post by nosuchthing » Mon, Feb 16, 2026, 2:44 AM UTC

nilkn wrote: post #387

TSiege wrote: post #336

There are a few take aways I think the detractors and celebrators here are missing. 1. OpenAI is saying with this statement "You could be multimillion while having AI do all the work for you." This buy out for something vibe coded and built around another open source project is meant to keep the hype going. The project is entirely open source and OpenAI could have easily done this themselves if they weren't so worrie…

This comment is filled with speculation which I think is mostly unfounded and unnecessarily negative in its orientation. Let's take the safety point. Yes, OpenClaw is infamously not exactly safe. Your interpretation is that, by hiring Peter, OpenAI must no longer care about safety. Another interpretation, though, is that offered by Peter himself, in this blog post: "My next mission is to build an agent that even my m…

  OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission (November 2025)

https://theconversation.com/openai-has-deleted-the-word-safe...

Thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47008560

Other words removed:

   responsibly
   unconstrained
   safe
   positive

Re: I’m joining OpenAI

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Post by dhruv3006 » Mon, Feb 16, 2026, 2:45 AM UTC

So if Openclaw is chromium then what will be chrome?

Re: I’m joining OpenAI

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Post by shuckles » Mon, Feb 16, 2026, 2:48 AM UTC

sunkeeh wrote: post #364

This is NOT OpenAI buying OpenClaw, it's OpenAI hiring someone who can build it, similar to them betting on Jony Ive.

OpenAI did not "bet" on Jony Ive. They bought his company io Products.

Re: I’m joining OpenAI

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Post by daveidol » Mon, Feb 16, 2026, 2:53 AM UTC

TSiege wrote: post #356

Aurornis wrote: post #349

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> This buy out for something vibe coded I think all of these comments about acquisitions or buy outs aren’t reading the blog post carefully: The post isn’t saying OpenClaw was acquired. It’s saying that Pete is joining OpenAI. There are two sentences at the top that sum it up: > I’m joining OpenAI to work on bringing agents to everyone. OpenClaw will move to a foundation and stay open and independent. OpenClaw was no…

Fair enough. Call it a high profile acquihire then

“Acquihire” means there was an acquisition. This is just a hire.

Re: I’m joining OpenAI

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Post by baruz » Mon, Feb 16, 2026, 2:55 AM UTC

TSiege wrote: post #356

Aurornis wrote: post #349

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> This buy out for something vibe coded I think all of these comments about acquisitions or buy outs aren’t reading the blog post carefully: The post isn’t saying OpenClaw was acquired. It’s saying that Pete is joining OpenAI. There are two sentences at the top that sum it up: > I’m joining OpenAI to work on bringing agents to everyone. OpenClaw will move to a foundation and stay open and independent. OpenClaw was no…

Fair enough. Call it a high profile acquihire then

What got acquired?

Re: I’m joining OpenAI

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Post by vldszn » Mon, Feb 16, 2026, 3:00 AM UTC

Good exit for him imo

Re: I’m joining OpenAI

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Post by SilverElfin » Mon, Feb 16, 2026, 3:01 AM UTC

Aurornis wrote: post #349

TSiege wrote: post #336

There are a few take aways I think the detractors and celebrators here are missing. 1. OpenAI is saying with this statement "You could be multimillion while having AI do all the work for you." This buy out for something vibe coded and built around another open source project is meant to keep the hype going. The project is entirely open source and OpenAI could have easily done this themselves if they weren't so worrie…

> This buy out for something vibe coded I think all of these comments about acquisitions or buy outs aren’t reading the blog post carefully: The post isn’t saying OpenClaw was acquired. It’s saying that Pete is joining OpenAI. There are two sentences at the top that sum it up: > I’m joining OpenAI to work on bringing agents to everyone. OpenClaw will move to a foundation and stay open and independent. OpenClaw was no…

This is to avoid open claw liability and because hiring people (often with a license to their tech or patents) is the new smarter way to acquire and avoid antitrust issues

Re: I’m joining OpenAI

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Post by bakugo » Mon, Feb 16, 2026, 3:02 AM UTC

This is easily the most successful tech grift I've ever seen.

Props to this guy for scamming Altman this hard without writing a single line of code, or really doing anything at all other than paying for a bunch of github stars and tweets/blogposts from fellow grifters.

Re: I’m joining OpenAI

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Post by jasonfj40 » Mon, Feb 16, 2026, 3:03 AM UTC

Fuck

Re: I’m joining OpenAI

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Post by moron4hire » Mon, Feb 16, 2026, 3:04 AM UTC

socialcommenter wrote: post #279

rgbrenner wrote: post #241

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But the security risk wasnt taken by OpenClaw. Releasing vulnerable software that users run on their own machines isn't going to compromise OpenClaw itself. It can still deliver value for it's users while also requiring those same users to handle the insecurity of the software themselves (by either ignoring it or setting up sandboxes, etc to reduce the risk, and then maybe that reduced risk is weighed against the nov…

This argument has the same obvious flaws as the anti-mask/anti-vax movement (which unfortunately means there will always be a fringe that don't care). These things are allowed to interact with the outside world, it's not as simple as "users can blow their own system up, it's their responsibility". I don't need to think hard to speculate on what might go wrong here - will it answer spam emails sincerely? Start cancell…

We really needed to have made software engineering into a real, licensed engineering practice over a decade ago. You wanna write code that others will use? You need to be held to a binding set of ethical standards.